Excerpt: Vader doesn't have a daemon, they say: none of the Sith do, separated from their souls as part of their training so that nothing could distract them from their pursuit of the Dark Side.

Vader doesn't have a daemon, they say: none of the Sith do, separated from their souls as part of their training so that nothing could distract them from their pursuit of the Dark Side.

It's not safe to do when Vader is aboard, but sometimes when he's very far away, off duty stormtroopers speculate on who he might have been -- a jaguar, a bird of prey, maybe, something dangerous that you'd never see coming -- but no one knows for sure who his daemon was, before the lake of fire and the suit and the name.

(She had been beautiful, once, the little weasel-like creature that was one of the only mammals that could survive on Tatooine, mostly by burrowing all day and creeping around at night -- but now Geula was a quiet shadow of her old self, and he hardly heard her voice anymore at all.)